“Uncorking Secrets: How Hannah Selinger’s ‘Cellar Rat’ Takes You on a Thrilling Journey Through Wine and Intrigue”
Selinger isn’t shy about naming names and calling out bad actors, but she plumbs her own emotional depths to lay her own professional mistakes and personal shortcomings bare. With the gift of hindsight, she can hold herself accountable for her flaws and foibles as well as the systems and powerful personalities that pushed on her trauma like a deep bruise. It takes fortitude to put these experiences to paper with such vulnerability and emotional resonance that it fuels the pacing in such a propulsive way that the reader feels they are experiencing it alongside her. Intellectually we know that the author will be okay, but we aren’t sure how much more abuse she can withstand and at what emotional cost.
